It is remarkable that every presidential election seems to top the previous one in terms of importance. With each race, the public faces the same dilemma: right-wing corporatism flirting with outright fascism or right-wing liberalism propped up by militarism.
These days, it’s easy to say that the two major parties have lost touch with what they have traditionally stood for. Kennedy and Obama both define “Democrat” in radically different ways, just as Eisenhower and Romney define “Republican” in radically different ways.
Sudoku and crossword answers for Friday 11-2.
Most of our global warming is caused by burning oil, coal and gas, clearing the forests and pumping methane into the atmosphere from farms, landfills and coal mines.
Editor, I’m a frequent reader of the Daily Lobo, and today I read a letter someone sent in regarding the football team and Bob Davie’s presence.
Every day at about 2:30 p.m., I start thinking about chocolate. No matter what I’m doing or where, how involved I am or who I’m with, the concept of cocoa rises in my mind like a breeze and wafts through my mental senses.
Sudoku and crossword answers for Thursday 11-1.
Editor, I am a fifth grade student at Monte Vista Elementary School. Last Friday, my class went to the University of New Mexico Art Museum next to Popejoy Hall.
As many of us watched the presidential debates, there was one incredibly important issue that was glaringly absent from the dialogue. This issue was climate change.
Sudoku and crossword answers for Wednesday 10-31.
Editor, What is your issue with overgeneralized political cartoons? I normally don’t mind them — they are there for a purpose, even if that purpose is to incite volatile discussion through the biased viewpoints of an editorial artist at the cost of the targeted party in question.
Editor, I found your political cartoon for Friday to be highly offensive. The cartoon depicts a woman with a note taped onto her T-shirt that says, “Rape me! God says it’s OK!”
H.L. Mencken wrote, “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched.
Editor, UNM should do everything it can to keep Bob Davie, the head football coach, when his contract is up.
Last week, new details concerning President Obama’s already controversial “kill list” were released to the public. The New York Times broke the story on the kill list in May, and detailed how the president has the ability to personally authorize drone strikes on terrorists and U.S. citizens aiding terrorists
Editor, Concerning the crime brief about the prickly pear graffiti last Wednesday, I have a couple of points.
With the presidential election only days away, I find myself more and more distraught about whom to vote for. For me, the decision comes down to voting for what I believe is the right path for my country versus voting for equal rights for my community.
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